A glance again at 2023, and a glimpse at what lies forward in 2024
2023 was a superb yr for the group behind the ethereum.org web site, and its neighborhood — we already really feel somewhat nostalgic, nevertheless it’s vital to create space for celebrating the issues the ethereum.org neighborhood helped us construct in 2023 and proceed the momentum in 2024.
In that spirit, we ready a recap with our 2023 highlights of the ethereum.org neighborhood — benefit from the studying!
The highlights
📚 ethereum.org Translatathon
56 languages, 217 contributors, and 1.47 million phrases (🤯) translated in a one-week on-line competitors, the Translatathon set the tone for the significance of repeatedly fostering accessibility in Web3, one phrase at a time. It’s one in every of our proudest achievements, with an impression and scale so spectacular it deserved its personal recap submit!
🔡 Translated pictures and diagrams
If it wasn’t apparent, we strongly consider the expertise of people that don’t converse English ought to be equal to those that do. So, we realized that having our pages translated into Spanish (for instance) however leaving all of the diagrams and pictures in English was lower than splendid. Our group developed a course of for translating visible content material, which massively enhanced the expertise for everybody visiting our web site who would not converse English.
👛 Interactive pockets walkthroughs
Keen to start out your web3 journey however somewhat involved about leaping straight and downloading a dapp? All of us have been there earlier than. With that in thoughts, the ethereum.org group have designed user-friendly guides to pockets utilization, bettering the onboarding expertise for brand spanking new Ethereum customers. Check it out and tell us what you assume 😀.
🤔 Take a look at your Ethereum information with Quizzes
A studying portal with no studying recreation? Properly, that was ethereum.org earlier than June 2023… now, you may check your Ethereum information by taking one (or all) of the eight interactive quizzes accessible on the Quiz Hub. The neighborhood are serving to to increase our quiz library, so in case you’ve received concepts or wish to contribute by creating questions take a look at our contributing information!
✍️ ethereum.org Writers Cohort
Strive something as soon as, twice in case you prefer it — and this is the reason we hosted two editions of ethereum.org’s Writers Cohort: a 3-week on-line program for people concerned with writing about any Ethereum-related matter of their selection. With greater than 400 contributors and over 540 articles printed, we will doubtlessly say that gathering our neighborhood to be taught collectively, put their concepts on paper and help one another alongside the way in which was the largest spotlight of this initiative! You’ll find the #ETHWriters recap on Twitter.
🛣️ Protocol roadmap: (virtually) every little thing in a single place
Ethereum’s roadmap is fluid and adapts always, however we’re tuned into the most recent proposals from builders world wide, and have constructed a complete hub detailing detailing Ethereum’s protocol roadmap. Interested by proposed concepts, upcoming adjustments, technical upgrades, and the way Ethereum is developed? Head to ethereum.org/roadmap to be taught extra.
💌 EF Weblog, straight to your inbox
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🏠 Geth and Solidity: a brand new house on the web
Alongside sustaining ethereum.org, our core group additionally assists with net growth throughout different tasks within the EF neighborhood. Over the previous yr, we have labored on designing and deploying new web sites for go-ethereum and Solidity and we could not be prouder of the end result – and extra importantly, the impression this may deliver to the Ethereum ecosystem.
🖼️ New yr, new illustrations
We entered our glow-up period by commissioning eight new illustrations to ethereum.org, now featured on pages throughout the positioning (see some: Layer 2, Builders’ house, Neighborhood Hub). Higher than that, these artworks are open-source, and we encourage their use by the Ethereum neighborhood. Take a look at our property web page for extra assets (and inspiration)!
🤲 Ethereum.org Contributors Spherical @ GG19
Helped by some nice folks at Gitcoin, we launched a help spherical to provide again and reward neighborhood members who made impactful contributions on ethereum.org. In whole, 19 people had been awarded, and this initiative validated our need to search out extra methods to return worth to our neighborhood in 2024!
🧦 New merch, who dis?
A token of appreciation to our contributors: in November, we shipped over 100 swag packing containers to ethereum.org neighborhood members – socks footage have taken over our Twitter feed… properly, at the least we will all agree they had been fairly fashionable!
🎲 Hacking and enjoying within the infinite backyard
Midway by 2023, an concept began to emerge — what if we hosted a gathering the place people might disconnect somewhat from the hecticness of web3 occasions’ and spend the time chilling and enjoying playing cards/board video games with the neighborhood? With that premise, we organized (in)finite video games at Devconnect IST and the suggestions from the Ethereum neighborhood was overwhelmingly constructive. Sadly (or not), our group was too busy enjoying Uno they forgot to snap an image… guess we must always manage a second version at Devcon SEA then?
🧭 Navigation redesign
ethereum.org is at all times a piece in progress. Earlier than we bid farewell to an eventful yr, our group redesigned the web site’s menu navigation, bettering the data structure for higher consumer navigation. We’re rolling this out early Q1, so maintain a watch out for this variation.
🧰 Full migration to NextJS
With over 16,000 pages and tens of hundreds of thousands of views yearly, we can’t overlook the engine that retains this ship working! After lots of sweat, many tears, and numerous PRs, we efficiently migrated ethereum.org tech stack to NextJS, paving the way in which for improved web site efficiency, accessibility, and scalability. We’re excited to ship many new options in 2024 enabled by this variation!
So, what’s subsequent?
Our Q1 2024 roadmap is already out for suggestions, strategies, and contributions. Take a look on how one can begin contributing to ethereum.org (e.g. writing or reviewing content material, creating new designs, translating the web site, creating new options or fixing bugs, and lots of extra prospects) in our contributors pages.
Thanks as soon as once more to each particular person concerned in making ethereum.org attainable. Right here’s to a fantastic 2024 🎉